Writing

Catherine Paillé

Known for

Writing

Credits

20 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

All Hands on Deck! poster
6.8

An unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.

All Hands on Deck!

2021

Savages poster
6.9

In Borneo, near the tropical forest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutang in the palm oil plantation where her father works. Kéria's cousin Selaï comes to live with them seeking refuge from the conflict between his indigenous tribe and the logging companies. Kéria, Selaï and the little orangutang, now named Oshi, will have to fight against their forest’s destruction.

Savages

2024

The Sixth Child poster
6.5

Franck, a scrap merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the go, and serious money issues. Julien and Anna are lawyers and cannot have a child. This is the story of an inconceivable agreement.

The Sixth Child

2022

Magnetic Beats poster
6.5

Brittany, France, 1980s. A group of friends, fed up with the boring country life and eager for excitement, create a radio station.

Magnetic Beats

2021

Daguerrotype poster
5.6

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

Daguerrotype

2016

Summer Beats poster
7.1

From the tower blocks of Paris to the countryside of the Drôme region, Shaï and Djeneba lead summer camp activities while grappling with growing up and growing apart.

Summer Beats

2026

A Polar Year poster
6.4

A Danish teacher takes a job in Greenland and tries to overcome the animosity of the tight-knit locals through a series of errors that help him embrace the snow-covered life.

A Polar Year

2018

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Isabelle

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Shéhérazade poster
7.2

Zachary, 17 years old, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in the mean streets of Marseille. He falls in love with Shéhérazade, a young prostitute of whom he becomes the pimp without realizing it...

Shéhérazade

2018

The Apprentice poster
5.4

Mathieu, fifteen years old, student in an agricultural high school, is an apprentice on a work-study program at Paul's farm, a small dairy farm on the Haut Doubs plateaus. In addition to learning working methods, Mathieu must integrate into family life, make his mark, find his place. Around the gestures of work, links are woven with Paul. He learns from his contact what cannot be learned in a classroom. Because it is also an absent father that Paul replaces...

The Apprentice

2008

A Better Life poster
6.3

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.

A Better Life

2011

Ogres poster
6.5

There's drama aplenty for the travelling theatre company Chekhov Cabaret. The actors share the good times and the bad as a nomadic tribe where work and private life always mingle. They don’t mince words, these obstreperous actors with a sardonic sense of humour. Theatre always comes first.

Ogres

2016

Midwives poster
6.8

After 5 years learning the profession of midwife, “the most beautiful job in the world”, Louise and Sofia are finally entering working life and taking on huge responsibilities in a world where, at a frenetic pace, they handle with birth, motherhood and sometimes death. Will their vocation resist such a storm?

Midwives

2023

Kissing Tigers poster
2.5

In Grenoble's Gypsy community, a young kick-boxing champion learns about manhood from his gay elder brother.

Kissing Tigers

2004

Land Legs poster
6.8

Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his teenaged children decided to live with him since the divorce of the parents. But when his daughter Mailys gets pregnant, Dom understands that he will have to choose between the sea and his family.

Land Legs

2016

Little Lion poster
6.1

A Senegalese teenager is recruited to pursue his dream of playing professional soccer in Europe.

Little Lion

2013

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Conflit de canards

2004

Gente de bien poster
6.6

Eric, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself living overnight with Gabriel, his father whom he barely knows. Seeing that the man is having a hard time building a relationship with his son and staying afloat financially, Maria Isabel, the upper-class woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the boy under her wing.

Gente de bien

2014

Mountain of Gold poster
NR

Gold fever has gripped northern Niger. In search of the precious metal, and despite the risks, an army of researchers has invaded the sites of interest. While camps are set up and dismantled as rumours of new leads spread, Moussa and his companions are banking on the Ikazan vein.

Mountain of Gold

2026

Eastern Drift poster
5.9

A drug smuggler is betrayed by his partner and is then forced to seek help from Russian mobsters.

Eastern Drift

2010